The politics of vaccination : : a global history / / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, and Paul Greenough.

• Superior document: Social histories of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Greenough, Paul R.; Blume, Stuart S., 1942-; Holmberg, Christine,; Manchester University Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social histories of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Other title: Politics of vaccination (Manchester University Press)
• Audience: Students, researchers and teachers in global health.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1526124270; 1526110911
• Hierarchical level: Article, Chapter, ...
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, and Paul Greenough.

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime. Core themes in the chapters include immunisation as an element of state formation; citizens' articulation of seeing (or not seeing) their needs incorporated into public health practice; allegations that donors of development aid have too much influence on third-world health policies; and an ideological shift that regards vaccines more as profitable commodities than as essential tools of public health. Above all the essays suggest immunisation offers a novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.